MIT Professor of Atmospheric Science Delivers Talk at Volpe
Dr. Kerry Emanuel, Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recently delivered a talk at Volpe. Dr. Emanuel's talk was part of Volpe's Transportation System Resilience, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change speaker series.
About the Speaker
Dr. Kerry Emanuel has been on the faculty at MIT since 1981, after spending three years on the faculty of UCLA. Dr. Emanuel's research interests focus on tropical meteorology and climate, with a specialty in hurricane physics. His interests also include cumulus convection and advanced methods of sampling the atmosphere in aid of numerical weather prediction. He is the author or co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and two books, Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes, published by Oxford University Press and aimed at a general audience, and What We Know about Climate Change, published by the MIT Press.
Dr. Emanuel served as professor and director of the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT from July 2009 to January 2012. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007 and serves on the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the National Academy. Dr. Emanuel has also served on the Board of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the Council of the American Meteorological Society. Click here for a full list of Dr. Emanuel’s publications.
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